1702/1710 George Kunkel was born. Different dates have been suggested. [1] [2]
c 1715 Anna Margaretha Shuster was born in Flörsbach, Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany. [3] [4]
1750 George Kunkel immigrated to Philadelphia at age 40 on September 12. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
1754 George Kunkel had settled and farmed in Albany Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania where he had a large farm on the upper end of Stony Run. [11] [12] [13] [14]
1756-67 George Kunkel paid taxes in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1756, 1759, 1760, 1764, 1766, and 1767. In 1767 he was assessed five pounds for 100 acres of land, two horses, two cattle and two sheep. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
George Kunkel was perhaps buried at Wessnerville. [20] A record of his death record has not been found. [21]
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Records of Rev'd. Daniel Schumacher, are found in the LDS Library in SLC, Utah, film #940443 - #7. The KUNCKEL families were recorded as being from the areas of Lynn Township, Weissenburg, and the Allemangel Area. Other Baptism records are found on the LDS film #20348, item #1.
Bio Sketches related to this family are found in
History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, - published 1898, pages 304 - 307 and pages 509 - 510. [22]
"Genealogical and Biographical Records records of Berks County, Pennsylvania," published in 1909, Vol. II, page 794 - 795. [23]
"History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania," Vol. II, published 1914. [24]
"Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, Genealogy, Family History, Biography" [25]
JONAS KUNKEL, of East Brunswick township, is making a reputation as one of the wide - awake farmers of his section of Schuylkill county who have adopted modern ideas and methods to their profit. Though he is engaged in general agriculture, truck raising has become his specialty, and by marketing his produce in the nearby coal regions he has solved more than one difficulty which confronts the grower of perishable crops. By patience and industry he has worked out his own problems very satisfactorily, and he well deserves his prosperity.
Mr. Kunkel is a typical descendant of the old German stock which formed so large a proportion of Pennsylvania's early population. He is a native of Berks county, this State, and traces his line back to Georg Kunkel, the founder of a pioneer family of Albany township, that county. He lived near Wessnersville, on land now occupied by one of his descendants, Nathan Kunkel. Georg Kunkel (also spelled Kunckell and Kungel), a native of Germany, located in Albany township some time prior to 1754, and it appears that he reared a large family. In Rupp's History of Berks County, his name appears on the list of taxables of 1756 as "George Kunckell." In 1759, according to Montgomery's History of Berk's county (1886), his name is listed as George Kungel; in the latter year he paid a tax of six pounds. At the Kunkel homestead is an old grandfather's clock that bears the date of 1772. It was brought into the house at the same time the house was being built, and is the workmanship of George Miller, of Germantown. It has kept good time all these years. On the brass face appear the letters "I. G. K." The Kunkel tract has been in the family name since about 1754. Georg Kunkel was a farmer, and since his time his farm has been divided and subdivided. His land at one time included all the upper end of Stony Run. He is buried at Wessnersville. His children were George and Peter.
Peter Kunkel, son of Georg, born Dec. 20, 1774, in Albany township, died Oct. 28, 1830. After his marriage he moved to Lynn township, Lehigh County, where he engaged in farming, and also operated a distillery on his farm. Later he lived near Wessnersville, where he owned a tract of 275 acres, which is now owned by a descendant, Charles Kunkel. In 1797 Peter Kunkel married Maria Magdalena Rausch, born Nov. 10, 1778, died April 12, 1846. They had fourteen children, eleven of whom survived their parents (sixteen grandchildren also surviving). Among these children were: Daniel, David, Andraes, Benjamin, Joseph married Catharine Snyder and had twelve children), Peter, Polly (married Jacob Elbert), Catharine (married John Dietrich) and Sophia.
Daniel Kunkel, son of Peter, was born in Albany township, Berks county, March 2, 1798, and died Oct. 26, 1863. He was a farmer, owning two tracts, one of two hundred acres, the other of sixty. He owned and lived on the farm which later became the property of his son Jacob, who sold it to Henry Bauscher, his brother - in - law, in 1870, for $ 10,000. It comprises 127 acres of excellent land, situated in the potato belt, and is now tenanted and cultivated by Daniel Bauscher, son of Henry. The present barn on the place was built by Daniel Kunkel. He married in 1821 Maria Magdalena Zimmerman, born Feb. 27, 1797, died July 14, 1859, and they are both buried at the Frieden's Church at Wessnersville. They had a large family, thirteen children, among whom were: A daughter who married Daniel Brobst; Catharine, who married Reuben A. Dietrich; Mary, Mrs. Derr; Benjamin, who married Sarah Hartman; John, who lived and died at McKeansburg, Pa.; Jacob, born in 1841, died in 1900; and Sarah, who married Henry Bauscher.
Family records were researched during 1994 by, Heinrich P. GÖBEL, of Steingarten--3, D63584, Grundau-Breitenborn, Germany, at the Parish Register in Kempfenbrunn, Germany.
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[8] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, [AncestryRecord].
[9] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, [AncestryRecord].
[10] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, [AncestryRecord].
[11] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 794, [HathiTrust].
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[13] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 1394, [HathiTrust].
[14] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-60.
[15] Charles Rhoads Roberts, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas Krick, and William Dietrich, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families, Volume 2 (Allentown, PA: 1914), 755-758, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
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[19] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[20] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 794, [HathiTrust].
[21] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-61.
[22] Berks County Book of Biographies, part 2 (1898), 509, [HathiTrust].
[23] Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (1909), 1394, [GoogleBooks].
[24] Charles Rhoads Roberts, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas Krick, and William Dietrich, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families, Volume 2 (Allentown, PA: 1914), 755, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[25] Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, Genealogy, Family History, Biography, Vol. 2 (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Company, 1916), 965, [GoogleBooks].